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University Networks Block Student Project
An anonymous reader writes "A computer science student at University College London put together FitFinder as a bit of a joke — it's been described as a cross between Twitter and personal ads, and it rapidly became very popular. The university took exception to this and started by blocking the site from being accessed on campus. Not content with this, a few weeks later it fined the student £300 and had him take the site down completely. Currently, the site is still offline, although there is a petition with several thousand signatures requesting its return. In the meantime, a site called PhitFinder has appeared, claiming to have no link to the original."
It tells that in their elitist Eurohubris they are sure that the knuckledragging Yanks really ARE the Great Satan, and that no one would dare fuck about with THEIR civil liberties that way.
Want to piss off everyone? Remind them how free they aren't.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
go to any average canadian or american city and you will see people walking around with many more pounds on their beltline than your average european
additionally, ukians don't even use pounds, they use a fascist communist terrorist socialist system called kilograms. luckily here in the usa we are still a free country and we use pounds for measurement, as god intended
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
That "juvenile pursuit" saved the few French who didn't collaborate with the Nazis from having to explain to their grandchildren why their neighbors were so quick to welcome the Third Reich.
"Table for 15,000? Right this way, Monseiur Führer".
You are welcome on my lawn.